Tuesday, January 03, 2012

157: retrospective

I´m super late but... HAPPY NEW YEAR 2012


I wanted to do this retrospective almost 2 years ago .... talking about procastination here, even with having pretty much all the files ready haha.

So, I´ll give a shout out to Casey and Okha , who still had a lot of my old images and saved me a lot time :)

I´m just going to cover the years 2000-2006 though. From 2006 on you can see most of my drawings here in the archives  haha

Oh and this was inspired by the wonderful Katie Rice , I highly recommend to visit her blog... her retrospective is unfortunatly gone :( And make sure to check the look-back from Daniel Lieske Daniel Lieske



2000-2003





Influenced by the few Mangas and Anime that were on the market around that time I was highly influenced by Sailor Moon, Magic Knight Rayearth, Battle Angel Alita , Record of Lodoss War and Escaflowne (character designer Nobuteru Yuuki was in fact the first animator whoose name I actually remembered and the first Anime based Artbook I bought was some kind of groundwork Artbook  for the Escaflowne Movie)











2004-2006

Got my own mac for my 19th birthday with Ps6 on it and could finally properly practise CGing. I already owned a small wacom at that time and now spent all my free time between school and jobbing to practise :D Couldn´t wáít to do what I´ve seen from other artists online. The beginning wasn´t very promising though, I had a hard time getting used to do everything digital.






Also I started to study Graphic Design in Hildesheim that year and at the end of 2004 I discovered ca.org and was blown away haha Also a few month later I bought a proper sketchbook, beeing inspired by wesburt to actually render with pencil...









Also started with a few comics during that time but never finished them...


Friday, December 16, 2011

156

I´ve been sorting out and throwing away a lot of things the last days ... sort of as a preparation for the new year. I think I´m going to do one more post before 2012 though ! haha Some pieces must be still from 2009-2010.. I actually remember that there are some sketches I did not really like back then and now I´m sort of ok with them. I guess there is sometimes some distance needed.


Tuesday, November 22, 2011

155

This an that, a few oldies, wips and junk. Haha, my drawings have gotten so scruffy XD

Sorry for always beeing absent and thank you so much for over 800 followers. It doesn´t seem much by todays standards but when I started this blog I never expected it to run for so long and have so many visitors. It´s still mindblowing (for me, haha). Thank you!!And I havn´t forgotten about that retrospecive ;)









a bit T&B :3 (wait for more)









Sunday, September 25, 2011

154

random ballpoint sketches ( I actually want to do a more refined lineart from some figures )






and not so random gestures, have been practising from a DVD